Soft templates, which are composed of CTAB and Pluronics, are demonstrated to guide the growth of water-dispersable Pd@Au core-shell nanorods. Moire fringes, which occur through the plane-matching epitaxial growth without the rotation of planes, are widely observed with their alignment perpendicular to < 110 > directions. Optical absorbance measurements indicate the dominant effect of Pd cores, and the resonance peaks reside in the visible region.